It would have been too expensive to investigate both sightings in full

[Mr Gray]

Why ?

father gets drunk ...crashes car..children injured...what happens

[Benice]

they paid their  house payments and jetted  around  the world instead  of paying to look for maddie shows their priortieis doesnt it and it sounds like  the fund was  fraud

So what's your opinion of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of the McCann's own money and their friends own money which they put into the fund instead of their own private bank accounts?

[carlymichelle]

dont you pros  get it they used money   that was meant to be for maddie and used it to pay top lawyers  who were  doing it pro bono  according to pros ???  dont you understand anything

[stephen25000]

So what's your opinion of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of the McCann's own money and their friends own money which they put into the fund instead of their own private bank accounts?

'hundreds of thousands of pounds of the McCann's own money and their friends own money'

Proof please.

Book sales don't count, nor do libel payments, since these would not have occurred if the parents had taken care of their children in the first place.

[Benice]

dont you pros  get it they used money   that was meant to be for maddie and used it to pay top lawyers  who were  doing it pro bono  according to pros ???  dont you understand anything

I do understand Carly, and so do the independent accountants who handle the accounts and the Inland Revenue who after inspection have found nothing amiss with them.    Are you asking me to believe that they are all a load of idiots and that you know better than they do?

[imustpointout]

anyway whatever money the mcanns got it sounds like they misused it they used it for themselves and not maddies welfare here that is called   fruad    IE    getting money and using it for purposes other then intended

fraud is a serious allegation to make on a forum that can be read by anyone.

[Benice]

'hundreds of thousands of pounds of the McCann's own money and their friends own money'

Proof please.

Book sales don't count, nor do libel payments, since these would not have occurred if the parents had taken care of their children in the first place.

LOL  I've heard it all now.   Maybe we should blame Kate and Gerry's parents, because if it wasn't for them Gerry and Kate would never have been born, and neither would Madeleine and so none of this would have happened.

So what would you have said if the McCanns and their friends had put their compensation money in their own bank accounts Stephen, or if Kate McCann had done the same as Amaral and kept the profits from her book for herself?    Would you still be saying that money doesn't count?

[comanche]

Where does one get these facts???? proof please, thank u.

[Cariad]

Do any of you very clever posters know how much it would have cost to investigate both sightings.. I don't...but I do know that SY have spent 5 million pounds so far...It doesn't really matter . you need something fresh everyday to feed your hatred

I have no idea how much it would've cost to investigate, but I imagine that if they'd requested that a news paper printed the photo's most would have jumped at it.

That wouldn't have cost the fund anything and would've got the information out. If anything worthwhile had come in off the back of it, they could have then decided whether it was worth investigating or not.

Its called living in a civilised society...tax payers should have to fork out for incompetent parents..

I actually agree with davel here. It is our duty as tax payers to fork out for incompetent parents. It's not the childrens fault.

[xtina]

I think it means it was too expensive to investigate both sighting so one had to be chosen at the expense of the other

I would  say at  the  expense to  maddie ....but there again £10 an  hour  was  too much...

So the one they chose then ......seems they suppressed  the evidence  for five years.....





THE critical new evidence at the centre of Scotland Yard’s search for Madeleine McCann was kept secret for five years after it was presented to her parents by ex-MI5 investigators.
 
The evidence was in fact taken from an intelligence report produced for Gerry and Kate McCann by a firm of former spies in 2008.
 
It contained crucial E-Fits of a man seen carrying a child on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance, which have only this month become public after he was identified as the prime suspect by Scotland Yard.
 

[stephen25000]

LOL  I've heard it all now.   Maybe we should blame Kate and Gerry's parents, because if it wasn't for them Gerry and Kate would never have been born, and neither would Madeleine and so none of this would have happened.

So what would you have said if the McCanns and their friends had put their compensation money in their own bank accounts Stephen, or if Kate McCann had done the same as Amaral and kept the profits from her book for herself?    Would you still be saying that money doesn't count?

Hardly a logical response.

The mccanns are solely responsible as parents for taking care of their children.

They didn't.

[Benice]

Hardly a logical response.

The mccanns are solely responsible as parents for taking care of their children.

They didn't.

Indeed as are all parents Stephen.  The only difference imo is that in your eyes only the parents of Madelelne McCann are required to be perfect parents and perfect human beings  - and must never ever be allowed to get anything wrong - and if they do they must expect to be persecuted by some people for the rest of their lives.

Do you think that's a logical perception?

If so - I can only presume you have never been guilty of 'human error' in the whole of your life Stephen.

[Apostate]

Too expensive? So you choose the less likely sighting and peddle it for 5 years even though your own guys trash it?

5 years wasted. Incredible.

[stephen25000]

Indeed as are all parents Stephen.  The only difference imo is that in your eyes only the parents of Madelelne McCann are required to be perfect parents and perfect human beings  - and must never ever be allowed to get anything wrong - and if they do they must expect to be persecuted by some people for the rest of their lives.

Do you think that's a logical perception?

If so - I can only presume you have never been guilty of 'human error' in the whole of your life Stephen.

Well I can say honestly I have never gone out drinking and left any of my children unprotected in unlocked accommodation for 5 successive evenings.

and who said I've never made mistakes ?

[xtina]

Too expensive? So you choose the less likely sighting and peddle it for 5 years even though your own guys trash it?

5 years wasted. Incredible.

incredible yes ..........................but the mccs   knew  what they were doing  imo

'' He said the fund wanted to continue to pursue information about the man seen by Tanner, and it would have been too expensive to investigate both sightings in full — so the Smith E-Fits were not publicised. It was also considered necessary to threaten legal action against the authors.''